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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention Quotes
On focus, distraction, and where our attention lands.
This set includes a scientist recalling an early assistantship in electron microscopy that shaped a career of close attention, alongside a broader point about attention flowing toward relationships in hope of satisfaction that doesn't always arrive. See Being quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
- Gray
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.
- Prophets
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ships are like children: they need individual attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
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- Nov 07, 2020